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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Alfred North Whitehead / Mathematician
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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Seek simplicity, then distrust.

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

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